Elon Musk has offered his own staff inventory at Twitter Inc, dispelling an earlier report by CNBC that the company has lost 80 percent of its employees since its takeover.
The chief executives of SpaceX and Tesla said the reports were untrue and that there were "approximately 2,300 active employees working at Twitter". The billionaire tweeted that there are still "hundreds of employees working on trust & safety, along with several thousand contractors."
Elon Musk said that Twitter now has about 2,300 "active, working employees" as he rejected a report suggesting the headcount was far lower.
He responded on Saturday to the Twitter account @unusual_whales after it tweeted a CNBC report claiming that only 1,300 people were still full-time employees. "The note is incorrect," Musk tweeted.
"There are, 2300 active, working employees at Twitter," he wrote. "There are still hundreds of employees working on trust and safety, along with several thousand contractors."
CNBC reported on Friday that Twitter's headcount was down to 1,300 active employees, including "fewer than 550 full-time engineers by title," compared with more than 7,000 before Musk took control. The outlet said its figures were based on internal records it had seen.
CNBC also reported that more than 130 people from Musk's other businesses worked at Twitter.
Musk also took issue with that figure, tweeting that "less than 10 people from my other companies are working at Twitter."
Dozens of Tesla, SpaceX, and The Boring Company employees were brought in after he acquired the social media company on October 27.
The next day engineers from Tesla were at Twitter's San Francisco headquarters, meeting with Twitter engineers to ask about their work and some technical aspects of the platform, Insider reported.
The tech mogul said he was on a trajectory to "fix" Twitter. His focus on the company has angered some Tesla shareholders, with one calling for Musk to find another CEO for the electric-car maker.
Last month Musk polled Twitter users on whether he should step down as Twitter CEO, with more than 57% telling him to go.
The note is incorrect. There are ~2300 active, working employees at Twitter.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 21, 2023
There are still hundreds of employees working on trust & safety, along with several thousand contractors.
Less than 10 people from my other companies are working at Twitter.
However, Musk is yet to announce who will be "foolish enough" to take over as "Chief Twit."
Twitter and Musk didn't immediately respond to requests for comment, made outside normal working hours.
Musk testified on Friday in a civil trial in San Francisco about his tweets in August 2018, in which he'd claimed he planned to take his car company private with "funding secured." He is expected to continue his testimony on Monday.
Before Musk finalized the $44Bln purchase in late October 2022, the San Francisco-based firm boasted about 7,500 employees, the 20 January report added. It went on to suggest that about 75 of the company's employees were currently on leave, including about 40 engineers. It also warned that the trust and safety team had shrunk to fewer than 20 full-time employees.
After Musk took over Twitter he lost no time rolling out a great deal of changes that affected day-to-day operations that did not sit well with some of the staff. Product and organizational changes included setting in place a Twitter-verified Blue check-mark as a paid service and also culling about 50 percent of the staff, including Twitter executives responsible for the platform's privacy, cybersecurity and censorship.
Then, what is the motivation for CNBC to make such a report? what is the purpose,?. Is it because Dlonmusk uncovered Faucy's documents and his son Joe Biden. CNBC is owned by Microsoft, Bill Gates. bill gates who is always on fire every time he talks about corona and vaccinations
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